The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786631077)

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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

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Format: Paperback
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A radical manifesto about doing what you love

Andy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur--a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square pegs as Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edward Said, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, and Jane Jacobs, each of whom shows us a path of unconventional wisdom and freedom.

The Amateur advocates urgently for the liberated life, one that creates the space to question authority.



Author: Andy Merrifield
ISBN-10: 1786631075
ISBN-13: 9781786631077
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
By Andy Merrifield
By Andy Merrifield
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Andy Merrifield is the author of nine books. His many articles, essays and reviews have appeared in the Nation, Harper's, Adbusters, New Left Review, Dissent, the Brooklyn Rail, and Radical Philosophy. He is a prolific writer about urbanism and social theory, with titles credited to him including The New Urban Question and Magical Marxism. He has also published three intellectual biographies, of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord and John Berger, as well as a popular travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys.

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